The series is a lotLighter and Softer than the standard incarnation of Nanoha and lacks a major antagonist and an over-arcing plot. It is by no means less action-packed though, as it focuses heavily on magical martial arts and feels much like a shonen series with magical girls.

ViVid has full colored tankōbon called Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid FULL COLORS; Force has also full colored tankōbon.

A twelve-episode anime adaptation aired on TOKYO MX in Spring 2015, covering the first third of the manga's story, while the spinoff series ViVid Strike! aired in Fall 2016, pushing Vivio to a side role in favor of newcomer Fuka Reventon. In September 2017, artist Fujima Takuya has announced that the final chapter of ViVid will be published in October of the same year, finishing the manga's impressive 8-year run at 102 chapters and 20 tankōbon volumes.

NOTE: Only general tropes for the series are listed here. For character-specific ones, check out the charactersheets.

MGLN ViVid provides examples of:

Adults Are Useless: In the Infinity Library arc, Hayate and Nove accompany the group of Inter-Middle participants. Fabia Crozelg fights the participants and is able to take down most of them, but neither Hayate, nor Nove nor Yuuno are there to help them. And among the late teen participates, Micaiah is one of them who gets curb-stomped, only Victoria remains, who on the other hand fights with Corona against an army of devils and cannot fight Fabia directly. Hayate just arrives when everything is over and she only repairs the collateral damage.

Averted earlier on in regards to Nove, Subaru, and Teana befriending Einhart before she even has the chance to meet Vivio.

Always Someone Better: The four main characters are just 10 to 12 years old rookies and they participate in the Inter-Middle Championship for the first time. Of course, there are plenty of characters who are much stronger than them.

Armed with Canon: Vivio explicitly refers to both Nanoha and Fate as her parents. This shoots a hole through other material that tried to downplay Fate's importance in Vivio's life.

In some documentation, Fate is listed as Vivio's Godmother.

Art Evolution: The art style changed after a few chapters. Noticebly, Erio looks older and has a different hairstyle in his appearance in chapter 11 from in chapter 2.

Badass Family / Badass Crew: On full display in the training trip where Einhart is introduced to members of the Nakajima, Takamachi and Harlaown family training and fighting.

Barbie Doll Anatomy: Used extensively in transformation sequences, but averted with the adults in all other cases. Averted in the anime, though.

Canon Discontinuity: The first chapter features Vivio sending other characters a picture of herself and her friends, Corona and Rio. It's ambiguous whether it happens at this moment or in the past; Lutecia looks noticebly younger than in her actual appearance, but the biggest contradiction is Hayate. She and Reinforce Zwei wear their Ground Forces uniform and Hayate has the same hairstyle from StrikerS, despite she had already longer hair a year after that season (even if it's not the same hairstyle like in ViVid or in Force) and she already transferred back to the Dimensional Navy right after the disbandment of Riot Force 6, but Vivio became friends with Rio in the end of their third year, which makes this event implausible.

Did you notice there are two Fates, but no Zafira? And that Vivio is in the opposite team of her friends?

Curb-Stomp Battle: A few on- and off-screen ones during the opening of the Tournament Arc. Chapter 25 has a montage of Team Nakajima curbstomping unnamed opponents.

David vs. Goliath: Happens frequently with the newcomers and the veterans in the Tournament Arc. It's only played straight once, and the winning newcomer isn't even a main characternote Or she is. Miura has the reputation of a main character.

Demoted to Extra: With the exceptions of Vivio, Lutecia and a few of the Numbers, all the other recurring characters have had their screen time cut, even Nanoha and Fate. This isn't a bad thing though, as Vivio and Einhart do a very good job of copying their dynamic and a new generation of magical girls are stepping in to fill the gaps. Also, most of the characters from previous seasons are overpowered in comparison to the Inter-Middle participants.

There is also a balance. Most characters who are Demoted to Extra in ViVid appear more often in Force. Likewise, almost every major character in ViVid doesn't appear in Force or is barely seen, like Nove.

Fantastic Fighting Style: Strike Arts, Kaiser Arts or Black Jeremiah. All the named rivals in the tournament arc have some uniquely named fighting style, but it's not clear whether they are officially recognised or just their own variations. Parodied with Harry's ore-shiki, which means "Me-style" or "Style of Me".

Friendly Fire: During the training session, Teana sets up an area bombardment Crossfire Full Burst. She apparently didn't bother aiming it as she hits allies and enemies alike.

The duel Starlight Breaker ends up blasting the entire field, knocking almost everyone out in one go.

Full-Contact Magic: All those heavy-impact punches and kicks still count as magic. Vivio especially, she's attempting to weave magic and martial arts together, something that her ancestor was apparently a grandmaster of.

Genre Shift: On the surface it appears to be an attempt to return the series to its roots of Magical Girl cuteness, but it's so overloaded with various martial-arts related tropes, one could almost be forgiven for mistaking it for a shonen fighting series.

Hero of Another Story: While the tournament follows the underdog story in Vivio and her friends, the story also fleshes out the friendly rivalries and camaraderie of the returning contestants like Sieglinde, Victoria, and Harry, making it difficult to chose whether to root for the newcomers to overcome the veterans or for the veterans to survive long enough to finally to conclude their personal duels.

Hit Points: Used in both the mock battle and the Inter-Middle Championship in order to prevent the fights from dragging for too long and increasing the risk of injuries. Even so fighters can be KO'd before their hit points reach zero.

Idiot Hair: Many characters introduced in ViVid have ahoge for no reasons. It's easier to count the characters who don't have ahoge.

Identical Grandson: Sieglende, Einhart and Fabia look very similar to Wilfried, Claus and Crozleg on top of inheriting their abilities. All three and Vivio also share personality quirks with their ancestors, many of which developed independent of any genetic memories.

Improbably Female Cast: While the previous seasons was already bad with this trope, ViVid takes it Up to Eleven than any other series of the main continuity. Only two new male characters, one of them being a Posthumous Character, have been introduced in ViVid. There aren't any featured male Inter-Middle participants despite it's not restricted only for females, as Erio has the option to enter it in his world. So far, the only male characters who have appeared in ViVid are Erio, Genya, Claus, Voltz, Zafira, Edgar, Yuuno and Lei. And they don't have much screentime either, three of them are just only cameos.

Let's Get Dangerous!: What everyone looked like to Einhart when she first gets to see Nanoha & Co. in action.

Einhart: It must be wonderful to have two such gentle and family-devoted mothers... but they can do magical combat too?

Magical Library: The Infinite Library, the TSAB's knowledge base that predates the organization. It also has secret unexplored areas and rooms that might contain dangerous magical artifacts. (Librarians have to have expeditions to the library to make sure there's nothing dangerous)

Mood Whiplash: Do not read this back-to-back with the other then-currently (now on infinite hiatus) running Nanoha manga, Force, or you'll be in need of a new metaphorical neck before you know it.

Mundane Made Awesome: The school festival from chapter 64 to 66. Aside from the whole magic thing, the cast makes simple events like arm wrestling really awesome.

My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Arguably the whole point of the series, with multiple practitioners of different fighting styles squaring off to see who will come out on top.

Not Just a Tournament: Averted. There are no evil schemes behind the tournament, despite there are several descendants of people from the Ancient Belkan era participating in the tournament, which is either coincidence or destiny.

Panthera Awesome: The snow leopards of Shutra, which Olivie and Klaus kept as pets as shown in a flashback.

Panty Shot: Happens a lot. Rather jarring when you consider the fact that the previous seasons only had one each.

Reality Ensues: While Vivio and her friends are the main characters, it is noted that they are still amateurs going up against very seasoned professionals. With the exception of Miura, who was trained personally by the Wolkenritter, every time one of the girls went up against a veteran (Rio for Harry and Einhart for Sieglinde) ended up in a loss. Even against each other, Vivio was a hobbyist compared to Miura's dedicated practices.

Shared Family Quirks: Vivio and Nanoha have the exact same reaction upon meeting Einhart. Namely, they start gushing about how amazing it is that she practices martial arts.

Shout-Out: In Episode 2 of the anime, Vivio's 100m dash result is the same as the world record set by Usain Bolt in 2009, 9.58 seconds!

Super Robot: In much the same way as the previous casts tended to be seen as expies of either Real Robots or their pilots. Those individuals that are reincarnations/decendants of ancient warrior-kings tend to come across as general expies of these.

To Be a Master: To be declared the strongest in all dimensions (at least, within the 10-19 age group).

Tournament Arc: The DSAA Inter-Middle Championship. The whole tournament itself is structured in several other tournaments. First, after going through the preliminaries, the fighters are going to fight in the City Tournaments. Then, the winners of these tournament will participate in the World Tournaments, and finally the fighters who are end up victorious will decide the champion in the Inter-Dimensional Tournament. Since the story is about Team Nakajima's first tournament, the Tournament Arc is actually only about the preliminary.

World of Badass: If there was any doubt before ViVid made it obvious that kicking ass and taking names is a requirement for any girl over the age of ten. They even have an Inter-Middle Championship where the best of the best go to beat each other up with magical kung-fu for fun. With no shortage of candidates.

However, most of the participants are still much weaker than the TSAB mages.

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